Linking Research to Practice: Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia
Date of publication:
2012
Publisher:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Number of pages:
196
Code:
BM461
About the publication
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve healthcare, allow open government, and solve environmental issues. To realize this potential and influence policy-making and programme design, the Singapore Internet Research Centre, supported by the IDRC, created an innovative research capacity-building programme, SIRCA. The programme supports interdisciplinary ICTD research through the nurturing of research relationships. By bringing together experienced mentors with deserving early-career Asian researchers in an intellectually stimulating environment, SIRCA has fostered a cohort of talent capable of generating the rigorous scientific evidence needed. Their stories, and reflections upon the programme, are told here. If ever it needed demonstrating that ICTs are an indispensible tool for developing an information society rather than a reward for achieving it, then the SIRCA programme has achieved that.
Contents
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Linking Research to Practice: Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia
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Preliminary pages
- SECTION I: MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES: INSIDERS THOUGHTS ON THE PROGRAMME
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1. Perspectives on ICTD Research and Practice, by Roger W Harris, Arul Chib, authors
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2. SIRCA: An Opportunity to Build and Improve the Field of ICT4D, by Chaitali Sinha, Laurent Elder, Matthew Smith, authors
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3. Managing the SIRCA Programme, by Tahani Iqbal, Yvonne Lim, Arul Chib, authors
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4. Primary Investigator and Mentor Perspectives of SIRCA, by Ann Mizumoto, author
- SECTION II: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS BY EXPERTS
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5. ICTD Praxis: Bridging Theory and Practice, by Alexander Bukh, author
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6. Messy Methods for ICT4D Research
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7. Ethics and ICTD Research, by John Traxler, author
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8. ICTD Curriculum Development and Professional Training: Mainstreaming SIRCA Research Models, by Alexander Bukh, Roger W Harris, authors
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9. Multi-stakeholder Perspectives Influencing Policy-Research-Practice, by Arul Chib, Komathi Ale, Lim May-Ann, authors
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10. From Production To Dissemination To Adoption, by Ma Regina M Hechanova, author
- SECTION III: RESEARCH OUTPUTS
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11. It's the Talk, Not the Tech: What Governments Should Know about Blogging and Social Media, by Mary Grace P Mirandilla-Santos, author
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12. Integrating Digital and Human Data Sources for Environmental Planning and Climate Change Adaptation: From Research to Practice in Central Vietnam, by Pham Huu Ty, Richard Heeks, Huynh Van Chuong, authors
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13. The Challenge of Working Across Contexts and Domains: Mobile Health Education in Rural Cambodia, by John Traxler, author
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14. The Dynamics and Challenges of Academic Internet Use Amongst Cambodian University Students;, by Chivoin Peou, May O Lwin, Santosh Vijaykumar, authors
- SECTION IV: SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSION
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15. Finding a Path to Influencing Policy, by Roger W Harris, Arul Chib, authors
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About the Contributors
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Index
